I have a few already but wanted to merge them into one public domain oauth code library for twitter, facebook, friendfeed (and let other developers improve the library for their preferred connections).

I'm having a tough time just debugging mashing friendfeed and twitters oauth into one friendly python program running on the Google App Engine.

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Full disclosure: I just remembered this article mostly because the title was catchy, more than that I fully grok and support the approach. But I try to think I steal<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>appropriate ideas from the author enough that I think it's worth reading.

Signpost is okay, but if you need to do anything moderately out of the ordinary (eg. because you have to integrate with an unusual implementation on a server or because you have to work around bugs in your java platform) its use of final and private all over the place makes it very rigid and inflexible. Just a word of warning.
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emmbyOct 2 '09 at 21:06

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Mike, can you open a ticket for this detailing which parts of its API you feel should be more flexible?
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MatthiasOct 5 '09 at 14:45

Signpost does exactly what I needed it to do. Awesome.
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Stefan KendallMar 12 '10 at 17:31

Thanks ars I'll check them out, looking for simple/generic. I think the oauth twitter lib I grabbed fits that bill. A friend suggested I dig more into reading about web programming and write something from scratch before I try and go too far with using existing libraries.
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Mark EsselJul 31 '09 at 14:03